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What Matters Most On Monday, December 19, 2016

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Arab-Israeli parliament member MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset. February 12, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Arab MK suspected of passing intel to Palestinian prisoner who murdered soldier

Channel 2 says Joint List MK Basel Ghattas gave ‘significant’ information to jailed killer; fellow lawmakers call for his impeachment

Arab MK allegedly smuggled mobile phones to Palestinian security prisoners

Police claim substantial evidence in probe against Arab MK

Netanyahu, ministers blast Arab MK suspected of security offense

Beny Steinmetz. (Courtesy)

Israeli diamond mogul arrested in massive Africa bribery scandal

Beny Steinmetz suspected of paying millions of dollars to Guinea officials, including one of president’s wives, in order to advance business interests mineral-rich country

Police guard a Christmas market after a truck ran into the crowded Christmas market in Berliin Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Live updates (closed)

Suspected driver arrested after fleeing scene of Berlin market carnage

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Police say deadly incident at Christmas market likely an attack; truck may have been hijacked; officials reportedly had ‘indications’ of attack for days

David Friedman, Donald Trump's Israel envoy-nominee, speaking to reporters at a pro-Trump event in Jerusalem, October 26, 2016. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Trump aide: Israeli envoy pick is not a rejection of two-state solution

By ToI Staff and AP

Chief of staff Reince Priebus says all nominees for top posts, including David Friedman, will ‘represent president-elect and his foreign policy’

2 Jewish congressmen criticize Trump’s Israel envoy nominee

By JTA

Report: Mossad head briefs Trump staff during secret meeting

By JTA

Trump donated $10,000 to West Bank settlement of Beit El, founder says

By Tamar Pileggi

Settlers try to block the road ahead of the vehicle carrying Housing Minister Yoav Gallant, in the settlement outpost of Amona on December 18, 2016. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Settlement watchdog says each Amona family to get NIS 1 million

Deal to give new homes to residents of illegal outpost sends message that ‘crime and threats pay,’ says Peace Now

Cabinet approves NIS 1.2 billion cuts to health, education budgets

Settler youth feel ‘betrayed’ by the outpost residents they vowed to protect

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli lightly injured in shooting attack in West Bank

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Torrential rains have destroyed the temporary quarantine quarters for 100 Jacob‘s sheep, who recently arrived in Israel from Canada, on December 18, 2016. (courtesy Gil Lewinsky)

Flooding threatens to destroy biblical sheep project

By Melanie Lidman

It took two years to get the Jacob‘s sheep from Canada to Israel; now, after heavy storms, the first sheep, Rachel, has died, and 40 are sick

New growth peaks out of charred ground outside Jerusalem on December 12, 2016, just two weeks after devastating fires swept through Israel. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

If a tree falls in a fire, don't replant it

After devastating fires, JNF skips trees for the forest

By Melanie Lidman

More than 130,000 dunams (32,000 acres) of forests burned in the November fires; the Jewish National Fund says best to not replant… somewhat at odds with its fundraising plea

Hanukkah at Trump’s hotel: Why I went

He has his qualms about the president elect, but boycotting last week’s party was the wrong strategic choice

The miracle of the oil in Trump-speak

The story of Hanukkah, in the inimitable words and manner that may or may not have been used by Donald J. Trump

The closing of the Israeli mind

Even senior faculty will feel the stifling fear factor of Naftali Bennett’s thought-controlling academic conduct code

I guess I’m a kapo too

David Friedman is just a product of his US Orthodox background, but maybe that tough-guy stance will help make peace

Illustrative: Students learning in an Israeli Hand in Hand school, where the curriculum is both in Hebrew and Arabic. (Courtesy: Debbie Hill)

55% of Israeli Arabs are ‘proud citizens’ of Israel, but 76% reject its definition as a ‘Jewish state’

By Marissa Newman

Survey finds most of country’s Arab residents say life is ‘good’, majority of Jews and Arabs open to being friends; reports of demise of Israel’s democracy ‘exaggerated’

Image of children (in background) at the 'Nazareth Reads' event on December 10, 2016 in Nazareth in northern Israel. (YouTube screenshot from Arab48 newssite)

Nazareth holds children’s event that honors killer of Israelis

Human reading-chain gathering is modeled after initiative by Baha Alyan, terrorist in Jerusalem bus attack last year in which three people were killed

Fatah member Jibril Rajoub and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hold a joint news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah October 26, 2008. (Issam Rimawi / Flash90)

Interview

Abbas’s de facto ‘successor’ doesn’t want to talk about ‘the day after’

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian Legislative Council MP Najat Abu Bakr speaks to Palestinian media in 2010 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Palestinian forces remove MPs seeking refuge in Red Cross offices

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

After having their parliamentary immunity lifted by Mahmoud Abbas, three lawmakers taken from building by troops

A UN vehicle drives through the Syrian government-controlled crossing of Ramoussa, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo during an evacuation operation on December 18, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/George OURFALIAN)ac

1,000 leave Aleppo in new evacuation — medical official

By AFP

Doctor coordinating departures says some 1,200 people, including women and children, arrived at staging ground west of city

A picture of Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli, who was killed Wednesday along with a freelance Palestinian translator working with him when ordnance left over from Israeli-Hamas fighting exploded, lies on his coffin during the funeral service at the Pitigliano Cathedral, Italy, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Riccardo De Luca, Pool)

74 journalists killed on the job in 2016 — report

By AFP and ToI Staff

Toll, including 19 deaths in Syria, ‘reflects glaring failure’ to protect media workers, says Reporters without Borders

Former defense minister Amir Peretz speaks during a conference marking the 10th anniversary since the Second Lebanon War, on July 14, 2016. (Flash90)

Amir Peretz throws hat in ring for Labor leadership — again

Ex-party chair, who won praise for his role in developing the Iron Dome defense system, says he alone can challenge PM

An inset of the autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts. (Courtesy of the Government of Mexico)

Lost diary of tortured Mexican ‘converso’ features in early-American Jewish exhibit

By Penny Schwartz

This combination of pictures shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, delivering a speech at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 8, 2016; and President-elect Donald Trump, right, at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AFP)

To Russia with love: Trump’s dreams of Kremlin power

By Paul Handley

President-elect spent 30 years trying to build ties in a country that mesmerizes him for its real estate and its tough leadership

A stall selling oliebollen in Amsterdam in 2015. (Kate Hopkins/Flickr/via JTA)

How Hanukkah sufganiyot became a national treat in the Netherlands

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Israeli national Oren Cohen appears in handcuffs in footage released on December 16, 2016, a day after he was found in a drunken state and holding a toddler in an Arizona apartment at a gated complex he was visiting (screen capture: YouTube)

Who's your daddy?US dad finds kid in arms of drunk Israeli intruder

Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, shortly after his capture in 2003, in a screenshot from a YouTube video uploaded December 17, 2016.

US ‘got it wrong‘ about Saddam Hussein — CIA interrogator

Dragonera's comments screen (Courtesy)

Dragonera slays product time to market with AI

By Shoshanna Solomon

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin (seated, left) and President of the Hebrew University Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson (seated, right), meet with rectors from universities in Latin America. (Mark Naiman/GPO: Courtesy of Hebrew University)

20 Latin American universities sign cooperation agreements with Hebrew U.

By JTA

Scene of the deadly car crash in which a Palestinian man was killed on Monday, December 19, 2016. (Courtesy of Magen David Adom)

Palestinian killed in West Bank pile up

Bunny dolls made by people with disabilities, available on the buyforgood.biz website (Courtesy: SHEKEL-Community Services for People with Special Needs )

Israel online store makes ‘feel-good’ buying easier

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli president Reuven Rivlin meets with firefighters in Nataf, outside of Jerusalem, which was damaged in a major fire in November 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Fire breakFire brigade to cancel call-out fees

Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

US church shooter won’t use ‘Jewish invented’ psychology in defense

By Jeffrey Collins

Eggs or a bunch of Haman's eyes? (photo credit: Nati Shochat/Flash 90)

BreggsitBorder Police officers crack egg-smuggling plot

In an Aug. 15, 1986 file photo, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is shown Los Angeles. Gabor died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, of a heart attack at her Bel-Air home, her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said. She was 99. (AP/File)

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hollywood star with Jewish roots, dies aged 99

By Hillel Italie

Arab Israeli parliament member MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset, February 12, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHigh stakes gambles don’t always pay

By Ilan Ben Zion

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